Avalon Consulting LLC Announces Innovative Vignette Solution for K-12 Instructional Management; Avalon to Showcase Portal and Builder-Based Solution at Vignette Village 2004.

SAN ANTONIO -- Avalon Consulting LLC, a professional services company specializing in the delivery of enterprise level, Web-based solutions that address the business needs of clients, today reiterated the firm's commitment to the Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) family of software and solutions through its sponsorship of Vignette Village 2004. Vignette solutions include content management, portal, collaboration, integration and document and records management capabilities that drive greater business efficiency for enterprise organizations.

The announcement was made in San Antonio, Texas, at Vignette Village, Vignette's annual user conference, where Avalon Consulting is showcasing an Instructional Management portal created for McKinney ISD -- one of the fastest growing districts in the State of Texas. With collaborative and dynamic sharing of instructional assets such as lesson plans, assessment items, resources, and curricula, all indexed with the state-mandated standards database, this solution maximizes district staff efficiency and effectiveness and consequently, the quality of education delivered to the students.

"Avalon Consulting has a particular focus on rapid delivery to our customers of enterprise Web applications that matter," said Tom Reidy, President and Founder of Avalon. "Our use of Vignette(R) Builder, seamlessly integrated with Vignette(R) Application Portal, enables us to provide a solution to McKinney ISD and other customers that meets the highest standards for usability and functionality, within a critical calendar time window, and at an affordable price."

While the primary objective for McKinney ISD was to deliver a functional Instructional Management Web solution, a secondary objective was to do so in a manner in which reliance on IT resources was minimized -- both during the project and into the future. Vignette Builder, with its visual code-free Web application builder and robust data integration capabilities, allows Avalon to involve McKinney business analysts in the initial delivery, and to train those same analysts to be able to deliver significant extensions on an ongoing basis.

"McKinney ISD, like every K-12 school district across the United States today, faces the daunting challenge of meeting stringent student education standards on a stretched budget," explains Ted Moore, Deputy Superintendent of McKinney ISD. "While we recognized several years ago that an Instructional Management solution tailored to our best practices would be necessary to meet that challenge, our initial attempts using custom development lacked agility and became expensive to support. Vignette's solutions along with Avalon Consulting's expertise and guidance allowed us to realize the efficiencies and flexibility we hoped would be possible."

About Vignette Village 2004:

Through hands-on experience and step-by step assistance in live product demonstrations, Vignette Village 2004 provides attendees the opportunity to see how other Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) customers have successfully implemented the solutions of Vignette and its partners, as well as how to leverage the right solutions to achieve greater business efficiency. The event will include more than 75 targeted breakout sessions and a variety of instructor-led training sessions.

Those interested in learning more about Vignette Village 2004 should visit http://vignette.com/vignettevillage/pr.

About Avalon Consulting, LLC:

Based in Dallas, Avalon Consulting LLC is a professional services company specializing in the delivery of enterprise level, Web-based solutions that address the business needs of clients. These solutions typically employ the advanced application services of portal, collaboration, content management, and e-Learning technologies. Our focus is to be experts at applying such advanced technologies for our clients in cost-effective manners. More information regarding Avalon Consulting may be found on our website at http://www.avalonconsult.com.

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